Film

Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

1978 · 1h 57m · Drama · Documentary · TV Movie

A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.

Ronald Lacey

Dylan

Gayle Hunnicutt

Liz

Ed Bishop

Prof. Goonmeyer

Kate Harper

Connie Goonmeyer

Valerie Colgan

Imogen McLewis

Norman Chancer

Prof. McLewis

Hilary Ryan

Girl student

Rhoda Lewis

Florence Thomas

Clifford Evans

D.J. Thomas

Dennis Burgess

Doctor

Adrian Hocking

Child Thomas

Susannah Fellows

Party girl

Richard Davies

Young Thomas

William Thomas

Idris

• Paul FerrisWriter
• Richard LewisProducer

Release date

November 9, 1978

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 57m

Genres

Drama, Documentary, TV Movie